, 1887-09-17
TOW N TALK.
GsssIPy Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Cosby Little paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.
Two men who we're slightly intoxicated
were arrested for fast driving on Eddy
street last evening.
Uncle Toms CABIN at the opera house
this afternoon and evening. The advance
sale of seats has been unusually heavy.
j. L. Murray, manager of the Mahpah-
lutah Ice company, shipped several car
loads of the CONCEALED article to Denver
Yesterday.
A party of Cheyenne & Northern
graders which arrived last evening was
still endeavoring to bull the whisky
market at 2 o'clock this morning.
An officer was called to the west end
yesterday afternoon to quell a disturbance
at Rachael Johnson's castle. The rioters
had departed ere he reached the scene.
Three Italians and a trained bear, with
a hand organ and a consignment of maca-
roni as baggage, were in the city a few
hours yesterday. The outfit travelled
toward Denver,
Hon. E. Nagle's handsome East Sew
enteenth street residence is nearing COM
pletlon. When finished it will be a hand
some and costly structure, and an orDa-
ment to that quarter of the city.
When the notorious Margaret Henne
wa in jail yesterday afternoon she only
paused in emitting profanity to ~tearfully
inquire why Mrs. Jenkins and those
Eighteenth street people were not run
in"
The youngest wheelman in the city is
the bright 4-year-old son of Nath. G.
Maher, superintendent for the city gas
company. Maher, Jr., propels his dimin-
utive tricycle. with the fearlessness of a
veteran.
Deputy Sheriff Laing, of Cheyenne
county, Neb., arrived from Denver last
evening, having in custody one Shaw, a
notorious horse thief and general crook.
Laing has been pursuing the criminal for
the past week.
The Fort Laramie base ball club did
not arrive last evening. 1t is more than
probable that they are travelling overland,
and will reach the city some time to-day
and play a game with the Red Stockings
to morrow.
There was food for the curious at the
depot last evening. The platform club
received a carload of Chinese and a sim
liar consignment of Mormons from the
East, and the Uncle Tom combination
arrived from the South.
A first rate portrait Of NJ. G. Jones,
the genial drummer who ~soliclts orders for
the Omaha grocery house of Paxton &
Gallagher, appears in a recent issue of
the Western Merchant. Mr.. Jones is
well known in this city.
1t is thought that a life insurance agent
could now do a rushing business among
members of the police force. Mag
Henne's declaration of war has probably
elevated the premiums a trile, but pre-
caution knocks expense out every time.
An officer arrested Thomas johnson
yesterday and carried him to the city Jail.
Mr.. johnson was hopelessly drunk, par
alyzed, in fact. When asked where he
had slept the preceding night, he replied,
Just around the corner, in the Kuster
house." As a great many people here
know, the hotel mentioned is in Laramie.
A policeman who accidentally learned
last evening that Mag Henne had threat
ened to murder any member OF the force
who dared trespass upon her premises
after 10 o'clock p. M, remarked that he
would have a dandy turnout IN case
his friends took the trouble to bury him.
The city band and corporation council
would head the procession, followed by
the fire department and press club.